PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
Before we get started, I have a question left over from before, and that is, how did you choose Lisi, whose spiritual name is Alahah? Why did you decide to speak through her? .
It was a mutual decision. When she began attempting to communicates,s he worked with another entity called Fresno. with whom she worked until her mind was ready to accept a different vibration and a different level of communication. For it is important to be able to let go of the self, of the ego of the being, in order to receive. So it was more virtuous. We have always been there to assist her when she needed it.
You referred to the other spirit as Fresno. How would you be known?
As many before you, you are persistent. We are known as the Beings of Light. Although
we are one, we are much more than one. -..
Was Fresno also a Being of Light?
Fresno was in a different vibration.
OK. .. I think I understand that. Can you tell me about your relationship with Lisi?
It is a mutual communication and of mutual benefit, for as she learns,we also learn. It
has been, in your terms, a long time since we had a need of a physical body. So we learn through
her experience as she learns through ours. In your terms, as we explained before, in away, we
are her future, yet it is now.
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Thank you. .. Over coffee,I did some thinking about the human condition and prepared some questions about psychology. I'm most interested to hear your thoughts on these subjects.
1. Why do we human beings have so much trouble with our emotions; with our feelings
of anger, jealousy and inferiority?
It is part of being in the physical body. Your genetics and your upbringing creates responses in your being. Sometimes negativer esponses that become ingrained in your nature.
The problem is not so much the emotions themselves, for they are what they are. It is reluctance of most people to acknowledge their emotions ;to accept them, which is the only way to overcome the blocks. For it is a habit of most people to block their emotions and not deal with them, and there are many reasons for that. lt could be a reluctance to deal with pain ,feeling guilty about feeling anger, comments that were made a long time ago that you somehow were less than others. But if you acknowledge those feelings and you are willing to look within and learn to accept the feelings for what they are -- feelings are neither right nor wrong, they are just
feelings.. So the problem is not the feelings but your response to them, and in many cases the lack of response to them. Do you understand?
Yes. .. I appreciate your insight. Perhaps you were a psychologist in an earlier life? . . ..
. Any comments on that?
We have many lifetimes, one of which is Alahah's present experience. We havemany, in your terms, "after" that, and much has been learned throughout time.
The next thing I thought about is: "Whyi s happiness so fleeting?" .
The most difficult thing for human beings to accept is their own power. The fear offinding the truth and thereby realizing their power is a lot more scarry than any othrr aspect ofhuman life. The present society teaches people to suffer and somehow that there is merit to suffering, that it is a good thing. Of course that is not the truth, for there is much peace and happiness to be found in the physical life. It requires an opening o f the heart and the soul, and as we said, that can be very scarry for people. For once you realize your own power, you can not fool yourself any longer. You become unable to blame others for your problems because you will have the total realization that you are, in fact, the creator of all of your experiences.
Why do we hold on to our anger and resentment?
Look within and see what your benefits are from holding on to that anger. For we have investments in keeping the patterns that we have; they feel safe and known. Once you are willing to let them go -- and it is not a matter of being able to, it is a matter of being willing to-- then it opens doors that, to you, may seem like the unknown, when in truth it is rediscovering what you already know.
How can w e let go of the past and move forward on our life's path, living in the present and toward the future?
Look within. Ask yourself where the anchor comes from and don't take the first answer too seriously. For the mind will often tell, try to protect its status. .
Wel/, let's suppose, for example, that we're not talking about anger, but rather fear or trauma. How can we let go of the past in those situations?
It is the same process. It is necessary to look within, to look at the experience and to look at why we reacted in the way that we did, in order to let go. There has t o be a willingness to accept that it is in the , and that it is no longer a part of your life. But that requires letting go of patterns in the psyche that have developed because of the emotions that were not dealt with at the time. Does that answer your question?
Partially . .. But I'm confused, and perhaps a little dense, so let me elaborate:
If I am the sum total of my experience, then it seems to me perfectly reasonable that my current attitudes would be affected by the injustice, or even trauma, of my past. But if I create or shape my reality through my perceptions, then why can't I simply change my perceptual outlook to gain a better future?
You can! As we said, it requires acknowledging your response and your true feelings a tthe time of the problem. It
requires acceptance that you choose to make it a large part of your life, and that you chose to keep the old responses for althought hey are painful in many ases they are also "safe," for what the mind fights is what it thinks of as the "unknown." But as we said, it is getting back to your true knowledge, which in a true sense is not an unknown.
We humans often seek our self esteem from the approval or opinions of others, so we're always worried about what other people will think if us, or we're striving to impressothers through our accomplishments. So we fear rejection, we have low self esteem, we're judgemental and prejudiced. We value outward appearances accumulating wealth and fame.
From your viewpoint, is this human condition problematic? And what is our way out?
The problems are much of the learning path each individual has chosen. Not eveyone chooses to focus on spiritual growth. As a matter of fact, to many, that feels very dangerous. Because as we said, when you come to your inner knowledge you know and realize that you are the Creator, and many games that are played in your world are played in order to keep the "status quo," to not "rock the boat" with this realization.
Does that account for, say, seeking our self esteem from others outside ourselves?
If you remember, you were part of a whole, you are not alone the way human beings think of themselves as being alone. There is a deep need in everyone to belong and feel "part of," for that is part of the memory of the truth, yet most do not know how to rediscover the feeling of oneness with All That Is. So patterns are created looking outside the self for the answers instead of looking inside.
Why are we human beings so often motivated by greed, fear, resentment and hate?
The lower the self esteem, the more bigotry and hatred you will find. For someone who truly feels good a bout w ho they are and who has some acknowledgement of the truth has absolutely no need for those expressions. There are so many habits when people grow up that affect the psyche, and some become so disillusioned with themselves that in order to feel better, they degrade and hurt other people.
Could you address the motivations of greed, fear and resentment individually?
Greed is a good example of searching outside o f the self for the power that they are not aware of, but that they want. They do not know , r haven't come t o the realization of how to regain that inner power of knowledge so it becomes a hunt for power through monetary values and possessions and knowing the right people. Of course, as you well know ,that doesn ot work. There is little satisfaction with that kind of pursuit, for there is still the empty feeling withinthat something is missing.
What about fear?
Fear is probably the most common of human emotions -- fear of responsibility, fear of acknowledging real truth, fear of what is not known. It is a very deep rooted feeling, and it can create many other forms of game playing -- of greed (to acquire security), resentment, hatred, bigotry.
You can not find the answers outside of yourself. You can only find them within yourself. It is, however, important to share with other beings because we learn from their experiences, and once in a while, you will come accross a human being who will help you open a door, or you may help them open a door. That is all part of the learning process. The truth, however, in the physical world, is that most people fear showing who they thlnk they are, not realizing who they truly are. People thlnk they are the personas that they have developed over their lifetime, when in truth, that is but the cover. How often do you meet someone who will tell you exactly what they think or feel? Most people are afraid to.
You mentioned "fear of responsibility." Could you elaborate on that?
You were one with the source. You have all the knowledge you will ever need. Perhaps I'm trying to get you to make t too easy ,but I can't necessarilly a ccess that knowledge and I was hoping that you would elaborate a little bit more on what you mean by "fear of responsibility." I take it that it's something beyond the prima facie explanation.
When you become in touch with your inner self, you realize that you are the creator of your experiences; that you have a choice at each moment of how to respond to a given situation. Many of those situations re given the context of being someone else's responsibility": had they only done so and so," " had they only not said that," " had they only not hurt me"; when in truth, they lived within their own being and your response to the situation was totally your choice. Once that is realized, the blaming, the bigotry and the hatred disapates; for there is no longer a need for it. For you know that you are, in fact, the creator of your total experience; for you make a daily choice of how to respond to any situation. Nobody made that chouice for you.
When Alahah was a child, she and her siblings experienced a lot of pain; and each one reacted differently to the trauma within their own patterns. Each made a choice to respond in a given manner. That given manner has oftentimes been predetermined before you enter a physical body by choosing your parents and your environment where you grow up. You have chosen certain things to learn within each lifetime on the path to fuller knowledge.
So it is a mixture of predetermination in the sense o f choices made before birth, and those choices come
into fulfillment in your physical lifetime. So the question is, "how do we get away from what we have chosen?"
At some point in our lives, human beings have chosen hardship or trauma as the experience to open the door. There is little acceptance of being able to open the door without those experiences. The Bible and the Koran, and most of the Western world religions teach you from childhood that you are a sinner, that you are bad and that you need help; when in truth Ramadan(?i)s correct, each being is born with full knowledge f who they are and where they come from, but as we live in the physical world for most that memory disapates, and in many cases becomes completely unavailable.
Why would Western religions, which one would expect to be teaching a spiritual path, teach, as you said, from childhood that we are sinners, or that there is something wrong with us?
It is a game of power. When someone remembers their power and does not know how to access it in a spiritual form, they have a need to control the masses, which you can not do if you tell them that they are responsible for their own experiences. So therefor, the devil is responsible and only you in power have the ability to save them. It is only a matter of power.and control.
We've noticed a tendency in our current society to view everyone with problems as a victim of people and circumstances outside of themselves ranging from adult children who see themselves as victims of their parents deficiencies in child raising, to a sociopath who blames his shooting a politician on having eaten too many Twinkies. How do you see this?
The sociopath is a lost soul without a conscience which is created by their responses to their experience over time, the responsibility for which are theirs and theirs alone.
But what about what I've perceived as a tendency to view everyone who has a problem as being a victim; do you see this tendency in our society?
It is so much easier t o blame others for your choices, especially when you are not aware of making those choices. Nonetheless, those choices ARE yours. So the game becomes "the world did it to me." And you can look at it that way; still the response is unique for everyone depending on their awareness, and that is part of the chosen path. There are no such things as accidents.
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Would the same principles apply to cultures? For example, would you agree that in some cases in our world, there is a "culture of victimhood?"
That becomes on a level of mass consciousness, and you must remember that each individual chooses the environment into which they are born to learn specific lessons. It is not the purpose to become stuck within your environment and become one of the masses. The purpose is to become aware within and overcome the environment.
Why would these environments persist and the number of individuals persisting develop a culture? I'm curious about the relationship between individual and culture?
As we said, you choose your culture before you enter the physical body.
So the persistence of a particular culture is because souls keep choosing that particular environment to learn from?
That is correct.
OK. I get that. .. Let's move from the culture to the personal.
How can victims of personal mistreatment or cultural injustice forgive?
The truth in those situations are that what you term a "victim" has difficulty forgiving themselves because they blame themselves and think it is their fault of what happened to them.
It is part an acknowledgement on the unconscious level of each as a creatoer of their own lives but it becomes thwarted by the upbringing and creates psychological pain.
But if they did, in fact, choose it, it would seem to me that then it would not be hard for them to forgive the apparent outward source of their problem, which they really chose themselves.
Remember, when there is a lack of awareness and a lack of knowledge of the inner-self which becomes more and more surpressed as a child grows -- it becomes very difficult to keep remembering the truth. So it sets up patterns in the world, as we said before, where people look outside of themselves rather than within.
A follow up question: How can they escape from the debilitating influence of their victimhood, or what they see as the very real influence of their past?
It is a very real influence. It is not a joke. It is not unreal. It is necessary to look at the emotions that were buried at the time of the trauma, to acknowledge the fear, the pain, the horror or whatever other feelings were involved. It is not possible for the human psyche to overcome such traumas without truly looking at the feelings that were there as the trauma happened. And that creates a magnitude of fear in a being. For although they have already lived
through and survived the experience, the rememberence of the feelings of that time seems worse because they were denied and buried.
In psychology, we recognize a concept of "dissociation" where a part of the personality splits off due to trauma. We understand this as a defense mechanism to allow the person to function and survive in the traumatic situation. But how can they reintegrate to live afull life in the future?
That is a very creative way of surviving deep trauma. It requires getting to know the different aspects of the personalities or in some cases very separate parts of the mind as you find in multiple personalities. There is a continuum of variations of the degree of the splits. In severe cases, there are high barriers in which from one entity to another there is no memory and they have lost time, to the other end of the spectrum where the separations are not as intense but still there is a distinct change in behavior or they, as you may term it, "space out."
To overcome such a split requires a knowledge of the other parts of the personality to learn what the slides(?) are that each part carries and eventually learn to share those slides(?) within the totality of the being, at which time spontaneous integration occurs.
Let's just take something fairly simple, but not easy to deal with, like say, in the case of rape, where a young woman loses touch with her body feelings--splits them off, so that, in
Copyright 2002 by effect, she is able to just observe this rape occuring without feeling anything; but then in the
future, she finds that she doesn't have feelings--body f elings.How could this person reintegrate that aspect of her personality?
It is a matter of acknowledging and accepting the original set of feelings that occurred at the time of the rape. For what has happened is that those feelings were submerged and ignored because they felt to be too painful for the person to deal with at the time. .
(There was some personal questions and information given which I feel is inappropiate for this excerpt. Partly speaking of unexpected responses.)
It is not an uncommon experience for the body has its own way that is not always controllable, as you well know. You sometimes experience feelings "out of the blue," feelings that you have no desire to experience and yet your body will respond in it's own manner. That is very hard for many to accept. Forgiveness of the self is a high priority -- and an understanding of what is natural and not preventable.
This w hole concept of "forgiveness f the self" seems quite important.. . Could you elaborate on how to do that in some other situations, that might be useful to human beings in their daily lives?
There is a conflict within human psyches: a vague rememberence of responsibility, creation and knowledge conflicts with the dogma with which most are raised, so that within the being knowing on one level of their own power they feel responsible for what happened you might say that the true knowledge becomes twisted and misunderstood through the dogma and societal demands. Thus you will see many children blame themselves for their parents problems. They will blame themselves for a divorce, they will blame themselves when they are
abused. They come to think that they are bad, or there is something wrong with them. With an open, accepting upbringing, less knowledge i s surpressed and there is less of a tendency for self blame.
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